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Delaney Mossbacher; an individual who resides in the rural outskirts of Los Angeles, yet was raised in the upper-class, high-scaled city of Peekskill, New York, is a Liberal Humanist, an environmentalist, a nature columnist, a materialistic narcissist, and a hypocritical racist. He, who is a highly egotistical person, lives and strives for just two motives in his unnoticeably complex life which could intertwine into one. Nearly everything Delaney does, has done, will do, says, and thinks, all revolves around the power and concept of his constant need and hunger for the unceasing control and perfection in his life. The control of being in charge, the control of portraying how he wants to be perceived, the control of having self-satisfaction, the control of depicting his perfect life, made up of a perfect wife, having the perfect job of being a stay at home father, and living next to his very own perfect piece of nature in his materialistic mindset. Delaney relies on the controlled perfection he creates in order to succeed in his life and to gain what little self-satisfaction he can clinch on to, the controlled perfection he must generate in order to make up for the lack of social skills he possesses, the controlled perfection he constructs in order to keep his sanity, the controlled perfection that unexpectedly gave oxygen to his racist personality, and the controlled perfection that revealed his true identity of an egotistical narcissist.
This control that Delaney retains and engenders gives him power and allows him to manipulate his life and render it to perfection. Perfection that in a way gives him physiological power that makes up for the lack of physical power he could ever possibly utilize or exert. Not necessarily the power of force, but to Delaney, having control and perfection gives him the power of presence that in a ways makes up for his lack of societal skills in which he does not possess. With all the power Delaney engulfs by being in



Cited: Boyle, T. C. "Sections I and II." The Tortilla Curtain. New York: Viking, 1995. Print.

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